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1980 The Easton Press Edition

The Decameron

Giovanni Boccaccio
The Easton Press, 1980. Later edition.
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Fine
Our ref
RCB-366b161c9cca
What we checked, and where to see itRCB-366b161c9cca · 9 photographs of this copy
✓
Easton Press leather binding, red morocco-grain with gilt spine compartments and gilt tooling
examined on the copy in hand
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Title page reads 'The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut / Collector's Edition / Bound in Genuine Leather'
examined on the copy in hand
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Copyright page: text reprint of the 1940 (© 1968) George Macy edition, special contents © 1980 by The Easton Press
examined on the copy in hand
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Part of Easton Press '100 Greatest Books Ever Written' series
examined on the copy in hand
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All-gilt page edges; moiré endpapers; Easton Press bookplate laid in
examined on the copy in hand
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No flaws noted on inspection.
This copy
1980 The Easton Press Edition

What a true first shows: The Decameron was first printed in Florence c.1469-1470; the first English translation (the anonymous 1620 version used here) appeared in London in 1620; this Fritz Kredel-illustrated edition was first issued by The George Macy Companies, New York, 1940 (© 1968). The present volume is the 1980 Easton Press leather-bound reprint of that edition.

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